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installed, or awarded. Currently,

SUBSEA FACTORY the portfolio of projects count close to 40 ? elds around the globe, see ? gure 1.

Conventional subsea boosting solutions have often involved large topside structures like variable speed drives (VSDs). For brown- field applications, the need for topside equipment have in many instances resulted in potential sub- sea boosting projects being shelved, due to limited topside availability.

However, new technology develop- ments will likely reduce the need for topside equipment, or almost remove it all together. Several developments point in this direc- tion, like developments of subsea booster pumps with integrated

VSDs, like Fuglesangs Subsea is developing, or marinization of equipment that is normally put topside. There are also ongoing developments on smaller booster pumps, optimized for boost- ing single well streams. These solutions will likely increase the number of ? elds applicable for subsea boosting. These pumps could be con? gured as a traditional booster pump, but there are also developments integrating the boosters into ? owline jump- ers, as Aker Solutions and Baker Hughes have done.

The Åsgard subsea compressor manifold station was installed in

Another subsea processing technology that could increase summer 2013 with the . Saipem 7000 Photo by Øyvind Hagen - Statoil ASA.

production from producing fields is subsea compression.

The oil price crash brings subsea processing opportunities, says Rystad